Chapter 13
Chapter 13
Disclaimer: Same as previous chapters.
Chapter 13
Buffy listened to Andrew’s story, ‘Some guy was blackmailing Clark?’ She frowned, ‘Who would want to blackmail a farm boy from Smallville? There’s something Andrew wasn’t telling me but yeah Clark was a good guy; he was nice and the Kent’s reminded her of her parents.’
Andrew frowned, he hoped he could help Clark without revealing that he really knew about his secret and he didn’t want to inform others, he supposed the Kent’s wouldn’t be happy if he did that so he decided that he’d ask Jonathon for help.
He walked over to Jonathon’s room and groaned, Jonathon was on his bed working on his computer, he waved Andrew in and said, “I’m working on a computer thing for Chloe, I hope she likes it.”
“You like her already,” Andrew teased a bit, knowing that his best friend had picked a cool girl to have a crush on.
Jonathon nodded, “Yeah, she’s smart, funny and pretty, I really like her; she’s nice to me as well and she doesn’t treat me like a joke.”
Andrew hugged Jonathon smiling brightly and said, “Maybe Larry could help you win her over.”
Jonathon groaned, “Larry’s busy, he’s got a crush on someone called Whitney.”
“I know Whitney,” Andrew giggled, “He’s dating Lana Lang, she’s the head cheerleader or she was until a couple of weeks ago.”
“I hope,” Jonathon muttered, “That Larry’s not going to get hurt by this Whitney guy.”
“Well he’s nicer than some of the football team in Sunnydale,” Andrew grinned, “So maybe he might be cool with it but I don’t know him too well.”
Jonathon gave a laugh of his own and said, “Maybe but what’s going on?”
Andrew explained everything he could tell about except for why Clark was being blackmailed, Jonathon sighed, Andrew had a secret and he had all rights to keep it.
“Alright,” Jonathon said, “I’ll help but let’s not get into trouble and if this guy is willing to kill, I’m sure he’d kill us.”
“Yeah,” Andrew said, “But I’m not letting this guy get anything from Clark or hurt him or his family.”
Jonathon nodded, he wanted to help Clark too and maybe get closer to Chloe, it’d be interesting too as he wanted to get closer to her.
They called in Cordelia and Oz to help as well, Andrew began to get the information he wanted about the guy: Sam Phelan and he was a cop, that much they knew.
Lex walked over and listened to Andrew talk about how to deal with this Sam Phelan and he frowned, he was proud of his little brother trying to help a friend of his but Sam Phelan was the dirtiest cop he knew of, his father always said that they could count on him for things but why was he interested in a farm boy in Smallville?
He ran to his office and dialled his father’s office only to find out his father was gone and not to be expected to be back for a couple of weeks.
‘Now that’s odd,’ Lex thought, ’My father didn’t take trips like this, he at least informs us.’
In Sunnydale Lionel was heading to the Wells household, he knocked angrily and when Josie answered the door she frowned.
Lionel looked at her and said, “He died in childbirth eh? If that’s the case then why the hell is Andrew with Lex right now in Smallville?”
She groaned, “You didn’t want him, you didn’t want me either.”
“No,” Lionel stated coldly, “You used him to gain leverage with me and I told you that he will not be raised here. I’m here to serve you with this notice; Lex may have custody right now and I’m content to let that happen because he’ll help Andrew grow.”
“Good,” Josie whispered with relief but paled when Lionel looked at her and handed her a notice, she muttered, “What’s this?”
Lionel growled, “It’s a restraining order so you can’t get your hands on Andrew again,” as Lionel walked off he heard her scream:
“You bastard Lionel, you didn’t want him.”
“Is that what you told yourself?” Lionel said bitterly, “To make it better to keep Andrew from me?” She looked confused and he sighed, “If I didn’t want him then why did I have a nursery built for him? Why did I start a college fund for him if I didn’t want him?”
“You’ll just turn him into someone as rotten as you are,” Josie sneered, “Like you’re doing with Lex.”
Lionel frowned, “Mrs Wells, I will make sure that Andrew has the opportunities to be everything he can be but he won’t be in contact with you and do remember Mrs Wells, Andrew is a Luthor.”
As he left Lionel began to make plans on how he could learn more about his son without Lex knowing that he knew and hopefully began a relationship with him.
Back in Smallville Andrew was sure they had a plan to help Clark deal with this Sam guy; hopefully nothing would fudge it up. Buffy, by listening to some gossip, heard that Mr Kent had tried to get rid of the man himself only to be driven off because they were in a situation that made Mr Kent not willing to use violence.
As he went to sleep Andrew was sure he could at least try to help Clark deal with Phelan, he smiled in his sleep, he could actually do some good for his friend as long as nothing bad happened in the meantime.
The next morning they got ready for school, Andrew wanted to make sure that Clark and his family were alright ,if the guy was a cop then he could make things awful for the Kent’s and they didn’t want the world to know about their son’s or his powers.
Oz looked at Andrew and said, “Calm down, I’m sure Clark’s fine; it’s only been one night.”
Andrew sighed, “No, it’s like this: if Clark wanted to make things easier on his family then he might do something for the guy and then who knows what might happen, right?”
“What’s the worst that could happen?” Larry said, “What can a kid like Clark do anyways?”
Andrew wasn’t sure about what Clark could do just that he needed some help right now and well he was sure he could do without him, no one was superman and could do things by themselves.
Clark looked pleased with himself; he had handled Sam Phelan by himself even if Lex called last night and asked him to let him help when he saw Andrew walk in.
“Hey,” Clark yelled, “Andrew, how are you?”
Andrew looked surprised, ‘He looks happy or at least happier than he did last night, what happened?’ He waved at Clark who gave him a large grin.
“What happened Clark?” Andrew asked, “I mean you look better than you did last night.”
“Feel better too Andrew,” Clark said as he sat down, “And don’t worry, I’ll talk to my dad, if you want to keep working on the farm you probably can.”
‘That’s great,’ Andrew thought as he looked over, he realized that while he loved the farm work he liked being close with Clark: they had nice conversations and he was getting to know Clark better and better, that’s what he liked about the Farm.
“Hey,” Andrew said, “Why don’t you come over tonight? We can watch a movie or something like that?”
“Maybe,” Clark said, “Not promising anything, after all I have to get back to work on the farm, right?”
Andrew nodded and ran off to class. Clark felt a bit light headed, he wanted to spend a bit more time with Andrew, maybe this was good for him.
The day passed slowly, Andrew’s hope kept building up and up he wanted Clark to come over, he wanted his friends from Sunnydale to know him and hopefully like him.
“Hey Andrew,” Chloe’s voice broke through his day dream and he looked at her.
“Umm, sorry, I wasn’t ignoring you,” Andrew muttered, “I was just thinking of something.”
“Yeah, it’s cool,” Chloe said, “I space out all the time but I need to ask you something: Jonathon looks at me all the time, does he, uhh, like me or something?”
Andrew grinned, “Yeah, he likes you. He thinks you’re pretty and smart, he was talking about you last night actually, maybe you could show him around but he’s also shy.
Chloe sighed, “Maybe, not sure you know, just met him though I do like him, he’s nice and all.”
“Then nothing,” Andrew grinned, “Maybe you guys can start out as friends, its better than how he was treated in Sunnydale, we didn’t have many friends. There was Larry of course and Cordelia, not sure about her friend Oz, never met him before now and hell, Cordelia only started liking us in the past year but some girls played jokes on him when he’d go out on a date with them; they’d do bad things or he’d come back with a black eye.
“Ouch,” Chloe winced, “I would probably go out on a date with him, just to get to know each other better.”
“Okay,” Andrew grinned, “But I gotta get home, I might see Clark later though,” and ran into Oz’s van and headed home.
Buffy sighed; it was one of those days: Andrew’s plan was good but she was afraid for him as a dirty cop probably wouldn’t care about shooting someone though he’d probably be killed by Lex soon afterwards, she knew Lex wouldn’t have a problem killing anyone who hurt his family. Over the weeks she spent with him she noticed he was hard on Andrew but not cold, he wasn’t afraid to give Andrew praise for when he did something good.
‘Hell,’ Buffy thought, ‘Smallville had been good for all of them, Giles had found a nice home for himself stating that he didn’t want to have to bother the kids while they were at least having fun.’
When they got there Lex sighed, “Andrew, you better come with me, Jonathon Kent’s been arrested for something and I want to offer our help to them.”
Andrew looked pale, “Poor Clark and the Kent’s, what did he do?”
“Not sure,” Lex growled, “But he didn’t do it, Jonathon Kent isn’t the kind of man who committed crimes but we will get to the bottom of it.”
TBC
The dirty cop may or may not die like in canon; I will also start with the relationships of the story.
Do you want Andrew and Lex to help get Mr Kent out of the charges? Should Andrew tell Clark that he is at least aware of his abilities? And if so what should Clark’s reaction be?
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